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Offshore powerboat association releases 2023 schedule.

Offshore Powerboat Association has released its 2023 schedule that includes nine stops starting with the LOTO Powerfest in Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., in June.

The June 1-3 race in Lake of the Ozarks has formerly Lake Race and will be held at Shady Gators and Camden on the Lake at the 7-mile marker. The offshore tour heads to Point Pleasant Beach in New Jersey for the Point Pleasant Beach Grand Prix (June 9-11) and then to Eastlake, Ohio, for the Eastlake Grand Prix (July 14-16).

Two weeks later, the boats head to St. Clair, Mich., for the St. Clair Classic (July 28-30). OPA’s August races include the Great Lakes Grand Prix in Michigan City, Ind. (August 3-6) and the Ocean City Grand Prix in Maryland (August 18-20)

Leading up to the Offshore Powerboat Association National Championships at the Pompano Beach Powerfest in Pompano Beach, Fla., on October 6-8, is the Crystal Coast Grand Prix in Morehead, South Carolina (September 8-10).

The OPA World Championships are slated for November 16-19 in Englewood, Florida, at the Englewood Beach Waterfest.

OPA classes include Super Cat, Factory Stock, Super Stock, Vee Extreme, Modified Vee, Stock Vee and various bracket racing classes.

The 2023 schedule is available at www.oparacing.com

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Fleet of 8 class 1 boats expected to compete in this season’s championship., new event in the city of sheboygan on lake michigan with season finale in miami..

Powerboat P1 has today announced the UIM Class 1 World Championship race calendar for the 2023 season, which sees the series heading to Wisconsin for the first time and returning to favourite locations in Florida and Indiana. A fleet of eight Class 1 boats is expected to compete in the six-venue championship from May through to September.

In October 2020, the Union Internationale Motonautique (UIM) assigned to Powerboat P1 the international rights to Class 1 racing in an exclusive ten-year agreement that includes organisational and promotion rights to the world championship. However, with the pandemic seriously impacting the 2021 season by preventing overseas teams from traveling to the United States, it wasn’t until this year that P1 was able to action its plans to attract more race teams and grow the series through social media and building the worldwide television audience.

Racing will kick off at Cocoa Beach on Florida’s Atlantic Coast in late May, before moving to the Gulf Coast at the end of June when the Sarasota Powerboat Grand Prix will celebrate its 38 th  anniversary. In August the series will head north to Indiana for the Michigan City Great Lakes Grand Prix, and a new event in the Wisconsin city of Sheboygan on the western shore of Lake Michigan will host the Mercury Racing MidWest Challenge.

Featuring the top categories of U.S. powerboat racing including Class 1, the three-day festival is expected to attract more than thirty teams to race along the Sheboygan waterfront. In early September the Class 1 fleet will be back on the Gulf Coast in St. Petersburg, and P1 CEO Azam Rangoonwala is in advanced discussions to stage a season finale in Miami. “We raced in this iconic city in 2018 and returning this year with the Class 1 boats would create an outstanding climax to the 2023 championship,” said Rangoonwala.

“As we look ahead to the 2023 season, I can confirm that both the M CON Racing Team and Sudrheim Offshore Racing will be joining the series to give us an international field of eight boats with teams representing Australia, Sweden, Norway and, of course, the United States,” said P1 CEO Azam Rangoonwala. “The M CON team will compete in a fully branded Monster Energy boat. This new canopied Skater 438 catamaran is the first purpose-built Class 1 boat for more than a decade. With Sudrheim Racing flying the flag for Norway next year, we can look forward to another Scandinavian team battling for the world title.”

This season’s championship will build towards an international race calendar in 2024 with host venues in Scandinavia and the Middle East being added to the schedule. In five years’ time, the key goal in P1’s development plan is to have twelve Class 1 teams racing at ten international venues. “Our live streaming this season will be significantly enhanced by the introduction of a new timing system which will show boat positions, distances between boats, speeds and lap times as live graphics,” explained Rangoonwala.

“We’re on an exciting journey and our mantra is to take UIM Class 1 back to the pinnacle of offshore racing,”

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18-21: MayThunder: on Cocoa Beach.

June 30 – 2 July: Sarasota Powerboat Grand Prix.

4-6 August: Michigan City Great Lakes Grand Prix. tbc

11-13 August: Sheboygan – Mercury Racing MidWest Challenge.

1-3 September: St. Petersburg Powerboat Grand Prix.

TBC: Miami Powerboat Grand Prix : tbc

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Six-Race Class 1 Schedule Set For 2023

With eight teams representing countries including Australia, Norway, Sweden and the United States expected to compete this season, Powerboat P1 has released its race-schedule for the 2023 Union Internationale Motonautique Class 1 World Championship series. The news was announced this morning in a press release from Powerboat P1, which is based in the United Kingdom and holds the organizational/event-production and marketing rights to Class 1 racing.

Fans of Class 1 offshore racing will have six chances to watch the action on-site during the 2023 season. Photos by Pete Boden copyright Shoot 2 Thrill Pix .

There are six races in the series:

• May 18-21 —Thunder On Cocoa Beach, Cocoa Beach, Fla. • June 30-July 2 —Sarasota Powerboat Grand Prix, Sarasota, Fla. • August 4-6 (TBC)—Great Lakes Grand Prix, Michigan City, Ind. • August 11-13 — Mercury Racing Midwest Challenge, Sheboygan, Wis. • September 1-3 —St. Petersburg Grand Prix, St. Petersburg, Fla. • September (TBC)—Miami Powerboat Grand Prix, Miami.

All Class 1 teams will run Mercury Racing 1100 Comp engines this season.

As noted in the schedule above, the Great Lakes Grand Prix is “to be confirmed” pending American Power Boat Association approval. The final date for the Miami event will be released in the next few weeks, according to Powerboat P1 officials. Though the Race World Offshore events in Marathon and Clearwater (Fla.) are not part of the UIM Class 1 World Championships, the Key West, Fla.-based organization will co-market those events with Powerboat P1. Class 1 teams are welcome to compete at those venues.

Likewise, the Race World Offshore Key West Championships, November 6-12, are not part of the UIM series but instead will be a stand-alone, three-race “Key West Championship” event under RWO.

“It looks like we have at least eight boats starting the first race and everyone is super-competitive,” said Steve Curtis, the throttleman of the Huski Chocolate team, which won the 2021 Class 1 world championship in 2022. “I’m happy to race wherever as long as we have a good lineup of boats and fans want us there.”

Like most of his Class 1 counterparts, Curtis had hoped the circuit would have at least one venue outside the U.S. this season. According to the release, Class 1 competitors will get their wish next season with venues in Scandinavia and the Middle East. Having a “12-team fleet competing at 10 international venues” in the next five years is among the organization’s key goals, according to Powerboat P1 chief executive officer Azam Rangoonwala.

In the meantime, the Cocoa Beach season-opener for the 2023 Class 1 World Championship series is just three-and-a-half months away.

There are eight Class 1 teams planning to compete this season.

“Our live-streaming this season will be significantly enhanced by the introduction of a new timing system which will show boat positions, distances between boats, speeds and lap times as well as live graphics,” Rangoonwala said.

As previously reported on speedothewater.com, Mercury Racing 1100 Comp engines will be spec power—without exception—starting this season. Among the teams converting from existing power, which was allowed with horsepower-output restrictions in 2022 to help build the Class 1 boat-count and fan interest, to 1100 Comp engines is df Young , which runs a 50-foot Mystic Powerboats catamaran.

Team owner/throttleman Rich Wyatt will be joined in the cockpit by Hugh Fuller, who shared the cockpit with veteran offshore racing throttleman John Tomlinson for several seasons in the Super Cat class from 2000 to 2003.

“We are excited about the 2023 season,” Wyatt said. “Our crew is underway making the conversion to Mercury Racing engines, and we look forward to testing and getting the boat dialed in soon.”

The 222 Offshore Australia team is one eight boats slated to compete in the 2023 Class 1 World Championship Series.

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A long awaited season announcement is finally here! This season will bring races in Austria, France, Finland, Canada, and the United States. Athletes, new and old, will be touring the globe once again to showcase their talent and compete for the World Championship.

The first race takes place in Judenburg, Austria at Winterleiten on the weekend of January 19-20, 2024.

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